Dysmenorrhea is a common gynecological disease. What are the main types of dysmenorrhea?
About half of the world's women suffer from dysmenorrhea, and nearly a tenth of them suffer one or two days a month. This problem, which most of them will continue after having children, plagues many women.
Due to different degree factors of dysmenorrhea, dysmenorrhea can be divided into primary dysmenorrhea, secondary dysmenorrhea, unexplained dysmenorrhea and severe dysmenorrhea. In 1980, 33.2% of 71746 women in our country had dysmenorrhea, 36.1% of them had primary dysmenorrhea, 31.7% had secondary dysmenorrhea, 32.2% had unknown causes, and 13.6% of them had severe dysmenorrhea. In 1985, it was reported that about 50% of post adolescent women in the United States had dysmenorrhea of different degrees, and 10% needed to rest for 1-3 days every month due to dysmenorrhea. It can be seen that dysmenorrhea is a common disease in women. In recent years, the age of dysmenorrhea reported in foreign countries is younger and the incidence of dysmenorrhea is increasing.
What factors are associated with dysmenorrhea?
According to the epidemiological survey, the factors related to dysmenorrhea are as follows:
1. Menarche: relevant research shows that the age of menarche is significantly related to primary dysmenorrhea. The incidence of dysmenorrhea was higher and the degree of dysmenorrhea was more serious in the younger menarche.
2. It is related to overwork, tension, cold and allergic constitution.
3. In menstruation, pregnancy and puerperium, the health of genitals is not paid enough attention; sexual life is started too early; many sexual partners cause inflammation.
What food can alleviate dysmenorrhea?
(1) eat more 'three fruits'
1. Eat more Durian
Many mm often look forward to durian's high heat and flinch, but durian has many advantages for girls, its hot nature, sweet taste, have the effect of promoting blood, dispersing cold, nourishing spleen and Qi, tonifying kidney and strengthening yang. Durian is often used as a post illness or post natal care food to promote blood circulation and relieve cold, relieve women's menstrual pain symptoms, especially suitable for women suffering from dysmenorrhea. At the same time, it can improve the abdominal cold and promote the rise of body temperature. It is an ideal tonic for people with cold constitution.
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine: dysmenorrhea in women is mainly caused by Qi and blood disorders, poor Qi and blood circulation. Food therapy should be based on Regulating Qi and blood, warming the meridians and dispersing the cold, so as to achieve the effect of unblocking Qi and blood, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.
2. Eat more bananas
Banana is rich in vitamin B6, which has the effect of calming nerves. It can not only stabilize women's restlessness in menstruation, but also help to improve sleep and relieve abdominal pain.
3. Pineapple can also effectively relieve menstrual pain
Drink some fresh pineapple juice or pineapple before menstruation. Because pineapple contains a kind of bromelain which can relax human muscles, it can relieve menstrual pain.
(2) drink more 'three soup'
1. Hawthorn and red date soup
Raw materials: 2 hawthorn (dry hawthorn is OK), 4 pieces of ginger, 6 pieces of jujube, proper amount of brown sugar
[efficacy analysis]
Hawthorn and red jujube decoction has a good therapeutic effect on dysmenorrhea of blood stasis type. Patients with dysmenorrhea of blood stasis type often suffer from abdominal pain on the first to the second day of menstruation or on the first to the second day before menstruation. When the menstrual blood is discharged smoothly, the pain gradually reduces or disappears, and the color of the menstrual blood is dark with blood clots.
Hawthorn: mild temperature, sour and sweet taste, into the spleen, stomach, liver channel, has the function of digestion and stomach, blood circulation and stasis, convergence and dysentery. Because Hawthorn has the function of promoting blood circulation and removing stasis, it is the best food therapy for dysmenorrhea patients of blood stasis type.
Ginger: spicy, warm. Warming the meridians and dispersing the cold.
Jujube: sweet taste, warm nature; spleen, stomach. It has the functions of Tonifying the middle and Qi, nourishing the blood and calming the nerves. Due to the high sugar content of jujube, diabetic patients should eat less.
Brown sugar: brown sugar is warm, sweet and enters the spleen. It has the functions of Invigorating Qi and blood, strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach, slowing down the pain, promoting blood circulation and removing stasis.
Practice:
1. Wash the jujube and hawthorn, remove the core and cut them in the middle.
2. Put 500ml of water into the pot, and put in the dates, hawthorn and ginger slices.
3. Start to boil over medium heat. After the water is boiled, change to low heat and cook for 10 minutes.
4. Put the brown sugar in it, stir it evenly with a spoon, put it in a bowl, and take it while it's hot.
How to take it: take it from the first 3 to 5 days, once a day in the morning and evening, and stop taking it from the third day after the menstruation. This is a course of treatment, which can be effective after taking 3 courses.
2. Danggui mutton and ginger soup
Ingredients: Angelica 9g, ginger 15g, mutton 50g
[efficacy analysis]
Danggui mutton and ginger soup: it is used for people with dysmenorrhea due to deficiency of Qi and blood. If you see cold pain in the abdomen during menstruation or women's postpartum deficiency cold abdominal pain, the pain will be reduced according to it. You will feel flustered and short of breath. You will have less menstruation, mental fatigue and fine pulse. It is suitable to nourish blood.
Mutton: tender meat soup is a good tonic, rich in protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other ingredients; it is sweet and warm in nature; it can nourish the liver and tonify the deficiency, and is good at treating deficiency, labor and thin, postpartum deficiency, cold, abdominal pain and cold hernia.
Angelica: invigorating blood and regulating meridians, promoting blood circulation and removing stagnation, so as to enhance the power of mutton tonifying deficiency and warming liver, so that the decoction can not only invigorate blood and activate blood, but also relieve pain.
Ginger: warm powder, to help mutton powder cold warm stomach, but also to eliminate mutton smell. Combined with Decoction, it can warm the liver and blood, disperse cold, regulate the meridians and relieve pain.
Practice:
1. Wash Angelica with water and drain for use.
2. Wash the ginger and cut it into pieces (the ginger should not be peeled, but the mutton smell can be removed).
3. Blanch the mutton in boiling water to remove the bloody oil stain.
4. Add some water to the casserole, and put in the boiled mutton.
5. Put angelica and ginger in the pot.
6. Cover the pan and cook over medium heat.
7. After boiling, change to low heat and simmer slowly.
8. Stew until cooked and rotten, then go to angelica, ginger, meat and soup.
How to eat: eat meat and drink soup. Take it once a day for 5-7 days before menstruation. It's better not to take it during menstruation because Angelica has the function of promoting blood circulation, which will cause excessive bleeding during menstruation.
[warm tips]:
1. Danggui mutton soup is suitable for dysmenorrhea patients with deficiency of Qi and blood.
2. Ginger without skin can be used to prevent mutton smell. The ginger skin is pungent and cool. It can disperse fire and remove heat, relieve pain and expel wind. Cooking with mutton can not only remove mutton smell, but also restrain the dryness and heat of mutton.
3. Mutton is warm and easy to catch fire. After drinking this soup, you can properly eat some cool vegetables, such as winter melon, loofah, cabbage, Flammulina mushroom, lotus root, water bamboo, bamboo shoot, etc., which can play the role of cooling, detoxification and fire elimination.
3. Boiled eggs with Angelica
Ingredients: 3 eggs, 9g Angelica
[efficacy analysis]
Boiled eggs of Angelica sinensis: tonifying blood, activating blood circulation, regulating menstruation and relieving pain, suitable for amenorrhea of blood stagnation type.
Angelica: warm, sweet and sweet. Return to the liver, heart and spleen channels. It has the functions of invigorating blood and activating blood circulation, regulating menstruation and relieving pain, moistening intestines and defecating, and it is used for deficiency of blood and yellow, vertigo and palpitation, irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea due to amenorrhea, abdominal pain due to deficiency of cold, and constipation due to dryness of intestines.
According to the records of 100 kinds of Materia Medica in the Qing Dynasty, "angelica is a necessary medicine for blood family & hellip; & hellip; in fact, it is an essential product for nourishing blood. 'if it is used separately, angelica is longer than tonifying blood, moistening intestines, and angelica is longer than promoting blood circulation and relieving pain.
Egg: it is sweet and smooth in nature. It can nourish the lung, nourish blood, nourish yin and moisten dryness. It is used for deficiency of Qi and blood, fever and thirst, restlessness of fetal movement, etc. it is a commonly used food to support healthy qi.